--- title: Every animal, big or small, has its own way of life, and a kind pers… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics description: Every animal, big or small, has its own way of life, and a kind person learns it: chickens need to be shut in safe at night, goats explore with their mouths, and insects have fragile bodies that are easily hurt. Who acts: animal, kind person, chickens, goats. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, kind person, chickens, goats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:0 # text = Every animal, big or small, has its own way of life, and a kind person learns it: chickens need to be shut in safe at night, goats explore with their mouths, and insects have fragile bodies that are easily hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:ccomp 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 explore explore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 41 fragile fragile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 45 easily easily ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every animal | animal's own way of life | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 2 | **learn** | present | a kind person | way | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **need** | present | chickens | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **shut** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | chickens *not said here* | | | safe | night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | | 5 | **explore** | present | goats | | | | | with goats's mouths | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | insects | fragile bodies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 7 | **hurt** | present · passive | | fragile bodies | | | | easily *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Allergies, horses and farm animals, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/67-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals/24/) - next →: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/)